Re: Explain the Law of conservation of matter and energy

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>Bill Hobba wrote:
>> "LameDuck" <Drifta12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1135824448.376782.19170@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Can you give me an outline of how I should order it my essay. Like what
>> > I should talk about first and what I should talk about last
>> >
>> > Also can you give me something easier that a high school sophmore might
>> > understand.
>> >
>> > But thanx for your reply.
>>
>> Check out
>> http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy00/phy00968.htm
>>
>> Post your email address and I can send you a paper explaining it in the
>> context of the other conservation laws such a conservation of momentum.
>> Basically conservation of energy is a tautological statement about a
>> systems time symmetry.
>
>Bill, are you saying that the law of conservation of energy has no
>physical content?

Conservation of energy has the same physical content as invariance under
time translations. Likewise, conservation of momentum is conserved by
virtue of invariance under space translations. In effect, that defines an
inertial frame as a frame in which those conservation laws hold.


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